Posted: 2/25/2010 4:08:45 AM EDT
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Ok, so when Napoleon is defeated (1815 or so) he's sent off into exile at Elba.
why didn't they just kill him? |
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Ok, so when Napoleon is defeated (1815 or so) he's sent off into exile at Elba. why didn't they just kill him? Killing POW's isnt exactly an accepted method of dealing with enemy combatants, atleast not in the 19th centuary. Although you could say there were some unethical practices performed by the French army in Spain, just becuase Napoleon crowned himsef emperor didnt give them a right to simply murder the man. |
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What Steve said.
Except in battle (and often by mistake)......royals don't whack royals. The entire point of medieval warfare when it came to knights-vs-knights was, whenever possible, to capture the other guy for ransom (happened to King Richard of England, among others). Napoleon may have started off a nobody but he "earned" his emperorship conquering Europe the hard way. |
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What Steve said. Except in battle (and often by mistake)......royals don't whack royals. The entire point of medieval warfare when it came to knights-vs-knights was, whenever possible, to capture the other guy for ransom (happened to King Richard of England, among others). Napoleon may have started off a nobody but he "earned" his emperorship conquering Europe the hard way. executing captains was never the practice |
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But...it's happened. As have mass slaughters (see Crecy) and random executions. Whacking royalty however.....rare. And they didn't want France and/or Italy to become to the Allies what Spain had been for Napoleon himself. A wise choice considering how the French swept his much less compitent grandnephew to the throne and threw away the Second Republic in the 1850s |